A pod of 100,000 dolphins spotted off of San Diego (amazing video)

UPDATE: This was on NBC News tonight, so it’s for real. I’ve got the NBC video, below. There’s a pod of as many as 100,000 dolphins swimming off the coast of San Diego at the moment, and nobody knows why.

Every year the dolphins do this, to a degree, but not this many at one time.

The video below was taken from a boat tour – it’s odd that the only video popping is a terribly bad one, in terms of resolution. No one on the boat used a phone beyond circa 2010 to film the dolphins? If you search for other videos, you get the usual YouTube mess of people stealing each other’s videos and reposting them – how hard is it for YouTube to stop this fro happening, really? – but not any other videos of the dolphins.

And here is the super-pod off of San Diego – hopefully higher-resolution video will be forthcoming:

Here’s the ABC news broadcast – it’s about the dolphins of San Diego generally, not necessarily this week’s huge dolphin pod. ABC oddly doesn’t date its videos – there’s no date on the page anywhere. This video could be from years ago – who knows. It’s always been a pet peeve of mine, when media companies don’t date their material. Anyway, it’s a nice broadcast.

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